The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 36
The man came under the tree, and looking up to the top there he saw Jack my Hedgehog astride on the cock.
Who acts: man · What happens: come, look up, see · To what, where: tree, Jack · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jack My Hedgehog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | under | under | ADP | _ | 6 tree | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tree | det |
| 6 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 saw | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 saw | cc |
| 9 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 saw | csubj |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 looking | compound:prt |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 top | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 top | det |
| 13 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 looking | obl |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 looking | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 saw | nsubj |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 17 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 saw | obj |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 astride | nmod:poss |
| 19 | Hedgehog | Hedgehog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 astride | compound |
| 20 | astride | astride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 saw | obj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 cock | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 cock | det |
| 23 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 saw | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the man | the tree | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under tree=Location | ||||
| 2 | look up | gerund | there | to the top | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to top=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | man | Jack | on the cock | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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